Ussr Army
How badly was the Red Army (of the Europe Russia origins) been decimitated ..?
by the time Stalin transferred the Siberian troops to the European plain?
Didn’t the Germans know (or protest against their Asian ally) that the Japanese were closing an eye on such, esp. on the American lend lease equipments been send to USSR via Pacific Ocean?
[1] Red Army losses, June / December 1941.
Hitler launched Barbarossa with a total force of about 3.2 million men (including allied contingents).
In June 1941, the Red Army’s forces in European Russia amounted to about 4.4 / 4.5 million men. Additionally, approximately 0.5 million Red Army men were stationed in Siberia and Mongolia.
By December 1941, just before Zhukov’s counterattack spearheaded by troops transferred from Siberia, the Red Army’s casualties (killed and captured) exceeded 2.5 million men.
However, these huge losses did not mean that the Red Army in European Russia had been reduced from 4.5 million to only 2.0 million men between June and December 1941. Sufficient reservists had been added to the fighting units to compensate for most of Russia’s losses.
[2] Japanese knowledge of Red Army troop transfers from Siberia?
I know of no claim that the Japanese knew that the Red Army was transferring units from Siberia to fight the Germans in European Russia, and failed to warn the Germans.
The Japanese army in Manchukuo had been given a very painful lesson by the Red Army in the Khalkin-Gol battles, and had given up the idea of seizing territory from Russia.
All Japanese attention was now focused on the campaigns in China; and especially on readying their sneak attack on the American, British and Dutch forces in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
In any case, even though Zhukov brought crack troops from Siberia for his December 1941 counterattack at Moscow, the Red Army guarding Siberia was kept largely up-to-strength with replacement units, and never exposed an appearance of weakness to the Japanese.
[3] American Lend-Lease to Russia via the Pacific?
It was not until October 1941 that America agreed to make Lend-Lease supply available to the Soviet Union.
If there were any Lend-Lease supplies from America to Russia via the Pacific, between October and December 1941, they would have been insignificant. But I don’t think that there were any such shipments made before Japan entered the war, and thereby severed any possible supply link from America to Siberia.
USSR Red Army/ Soviet Power! [Under Stalin's Government]
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